Quotes About Obligation

My everyday Appleton life, my phones calls to my father, my occasional beers with friends, my Saturday-morning jobs around the reservoir - what was all that, but the opiated husk of a life, the treadmill of the ordinary, a cage built of convention and consumerism and obligation and fear, in which I'd lolled for decades, oblivious, like a lotus eater, as my body aged and time advanced?

But you see, everyone has a part to play. In this theater, I'm a daughter and a sister and a mother—never an artist. I could be, I don't know, Luc Tuymans, and it would mean nothing to them. They allow no room for anything but my duty.

Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.

Now you owe me another one, Lord Yasha.

People who don't want to do something that they know they should do have marvelously inventive abilities to ignore what they know. They

I've heard writers defend some pretty appalling stuff by arguing that they have an obligation to depict the world as it is, but fiction has no such obligation. It's not a mirror to reality, it's a prism. It refracts experience. Also, I think some writers are reluctant to admit that part of their aim is to shock the reader, and that's a downward spiral. We have, as consumers, become increasingly inured to violence. Most of us are pretty hard to shock.

I tenenti dei marine non venivano quasi mai messi al corrente delle informazioni riservate. Avevano il dovere di farsi ammazzare, ma non il diritto di conoscerne il motivo.

Why did people think having a job was such a great thing? No matter how much fun you had the night before, you still had to get up early, get shaved and dressed, and go to some business where people expected you to be pleasant and do some work.

did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

vivir significa asumir la responsabilidad de encontrar la respuesta correcta a las cuestiones que la vida plantea, cumpliendo la obligación que nos asigna.

Even if you don't expect anything from life, doesn't life expect something from you?

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

For of those to whom much is given, much is required." Since Ohlmeyer was a gifted mathematician, much

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

No one would acknowledge that they owed America a debt—not the other way around.

oh, they had to go before the end they had to be back at ten

Directly anything happens—it may be a marriage, or a birth, or a death—on the whole they prefer it to be a death—every one wants to see you. They insist upon seeing you. They've got nothing to say; they don't care a rap for you; but you've got to go to lunch or to tea or to dinner, and if you don't you're damned. It's the smell of blood, she continued; I don't blame 'em; only they shan't have mind if I know it!

As for himself, when he went to go to a party, as one was sometimes obliged to, from a wish not to give offence, he walked into the middle of the room, said 'Ha! Ha!' as loud as ever he could, considered he had done his duty, and went home.

Society gives me chicken and coffee, bed and lodging, in return for a certain number of pieces of paper which were left me by an aunt, for no other reason than that I share her name.

The moral sense in mortals is the duty. We have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I go out to dinner, I wind up I with a homework assignment.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. —Lord Thomas R. Duwar